A man wearing body armor and armed with a gun terrorized a southern Indiana family Wednesday morning, officials said.

Floyd County sheriff's deputies are looking for the man who robbed the family inside their home.

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"When he took us downstairs, I thought he was going to kill both of us downstairs," Ronald Kelly said.

Kelly sat on his front porch with a bloody gash on his forehead, just hours after the armed man left his home.

"It is terrible," he said.

Kelly held back tears as he relived the terrifying moments when he and his wife were held at gunpoint and robbed.

Kelly said his wife was backing out of the driveway around 6:30 a.m., when she heard a loud bang on the back of her car.

"A white male dressed in camo pants, black shirt, body armor, ski mask and a gun approached her, moved her over in her car, drove the car back up the driveway and into the house,” Sheriff Frank Loop said.

At gunpoint, she walked back into her house to wake up her husband who had fallen asleep on the couch.

"I said, 'What is wrong?' and the guy was sitting right there, had the gun to my head on the couch,” Kelly said.

The gunman demanded money from the safe and then ransacked the house looking for valuables.

Kelly tried faking a heart attack, but that didn't work.

The suspect brought them into the bedroom, while he emptied the safe, Kelly said.

Kelly tried to grab his gun from the nightstand, but the suspect had already taken it.

"He said, ‘I told you to sit on the bed,’ and he smacked me with that gun," Kelly said.

After 20 chilling minutes, the suspect gathered what he wanted and left.

"He carried my guns on his shoulder and he took the pillowcases off the bed, and took all of her jewelry out of her jewelry box, and took everything out of the safe,” Kelly said.

The Floyd County sheriff believes the suspect targeted the Kellys.

"The suspect definitely knew from somewhere that the homeowner lived there, and those items were in the house,” Loop said.

Kelly said he didn't recognize the man, but said before he left, he turned and said something he nor his family understand.

"He said, ‘Tell your son I said thank you," Kelly said.

The couple's youngest son was inside the home at the time of the robbery, but he slept through the entire thing.

The man was white and was wearing camo pants, a black shirt and body armor. He was armed with a handgun.

He left the scene driving the victim's red Ford Fusion with Indiana license plate WQI312.

Just minutes before the home invasion was reported, police received a call about a suspicious white Chevy truck with two men in it in the area of Hopewell and Reinhart roads.

Anyone with information should call the Floyd County Sheriff‘s Department at 812-948-5400.